WEATHER Chilly in pretty much all the spots today. One day it’s 85 and feels like 100, the next day you wake up and its 35 degrees in the morning, Spring. Fun… All games play This fine Sunday brings us aces like deGrom, Kershaw, Burnes and Fried. It features the return of Zach Eflin to the mound, Kevin Gausman in Yankee Stadium and E-Rod in Baltimore. Young stars Hunter Greene and Grayson Rodriguez are on the bump and so too are veterans Lucas Giolito and Marcus Stroman. And of course, we have the holy trinity on a Sunday with Cristian Javier, Jesus Luzardo and Patrick Corbin. JACOB deGROM I may just start using this exact write up going forward for every deGrom start… It does not matter who he plays, where they play and what day or time they are playing. Using deGrom is a guessing game. The guess is how many pitches will he throw and does that result compared to the rest of the options on the slate make you comfortable enough using him. Will he throw 40 pitches and get you 12? Will he throw 90 pitches and get you 40? Or is it somewhere in between. I don’t care if he is facing Oakland, Kansas City, Toronto, Houston or the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp, it’s entirely a guessing game on how much he will pitch and today I think he’s in the 70-75 range and puts up a 28-30 on DK. MAX FRIED I actually would consider Max #1 today and with the depth on pitching I don’t hate coming off deGrom and starting your build with him at around 5% ownership tops? We are many years now into knowing that you simply do not touch Fried in his first 2-3 starts of the season and since he went on the IL and burned through a few of those we got everyone to forget just how good he can be. He showed that in his return on April 17 vs San Diego, going 5 IP, throwing 79 pitches and dominating his command with 0 BB. Houston still scares people because of their name and lack of strikeouts, but the Braves will avoid the sweep with Fried going into the 90’s on his PC today and delivering once again. HUNTER GREENE Greene off a start when he didn’t last long feels like a GREAT time to buy…...
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